Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...India's greatest figure, the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, slowly sipped a glass of fruit juice. Half an hour later, on scheduled time, he began a one-man war of inaction: a three-week fast to protest India's stigma on Untouchables. The first day he drank a good deal of water, mixed with salt and soda. That night the British Government released him from Yerovda Jail, his home since January 1932. Still sprightly, he stepped into an automobile at the jail entrance, was driven to the villa of one of his followers, Lady Vittal Das Thackersey...
Died. Jose Bacardi, 34, one of three brothers who control the manufacture of Bacardi rum; of pneumonia; in Mexico City, Mexico. Ten years ago Senor Bacardi's wife, then 19, sued him for divorce charging that he drank Bacardi morning, noon, night...
...wore knickerbockers about the Yard up to his senior year. Graduated with honors at 17, he took a master's degree. At 21 he received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He worked briefly in the office of Louis Dembitz Brandeis (now on the Supreme Court) and drank deeply of his philosophic outlook. After the War he practiced corporation law in downtown Manhattan with his brother Rudolf as well as teaching it. His Modern Corporation and Private Property (coauthor: Gardiner C. Means) is an economic bible of the Roosevelt Administration. As the President's advance agent on railroad...
...cowled man commanded the Friar, and a lambent flame filled the chimney, cheering the room, driving out the chill mist. From the empty cupboard the servant produced a bottle of Maliga sacke and a fat capon. While the spitted fowl drank in the fire the monk talked of himself, of the joys of youth. "Thou'rt younge yet," be smiled. "And so was I, onely, methinks, a few houres gone. In everie pleasure reioycing, I imployed myselfe with all the wilde antickes of the sences. An apless knave, dauncing with the trulls, keping my stomacke better than my soule...
Then, with Mrs. Shaw, he climbed into a plane to fly-before re-embarking at San Pedro and sailing around to New York- down to San Simeon to visit Publisher William Randolph Hearst. There, while Marion Davies and other guests "drank in every word," Mr. Hearst's syndicated cinema critic, Louella 0. Parsons, had an exclusive audience. Excerpts from her report...